13/09/2025
To
United Nations
Human Rights Watch
UN Human Rights - Asia
UN Human Rights Office - Seoul
UNICEF
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
UN Geneva
United Arakan Network (Korea) Issues Statement on War Crime in Kyauktaw: Civilian Schools Targeted, Children Among Victims
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September 13, 2025
In the early hours of September 12, 2025, at approximately 1:05 AM, the fascist terrorist Myanmar Military Council carried out yet another act of barbarity. Two 500-pound bombs were dropped from the sky onto Tha Ret Ta Pin village, Kyauktaw Township, Arakan. The airstrike directly struck the fronts of Pannya Pan Khin Private High School and Amyin Thit Private High School—places of learning, places where the hopes and dreams of our children should have been protected, not destroyed.
This cowardly and calculated attack slaughtered 19 innocent civilians, including bright students and nearby young children whose only crime was being born in their homeland. At least 22 more were left seriously injured, their lives shattered and families torn apart.
This was not an accident. This was not war. This was terror from the sky—a deliberate attempt to erase the future of Arakan, to silence our young voices, and to crush our people’s spirit. The Myanmar Military Council has once again proven itself to be nothing more than a blood-soaked terrorist organization that thrives on murdering the innocent in the dead of night.
The United Arakan Network (Korea) stands with the people of Arakan and condemns this monstrous crime in the strongest possible terms. We mourn with the grieving families, we honor the young lives so cruelly stolen, and we vow that their blood will not be forgotten.
We now demand the international community—the United Nations, world governments, human rights organizations, and all defenders of justice—to act with urgency. Condemnation alone is not enough. There must be accountability, there must be protection for civilians, and there must be concrete action to stop these ongoing war crimes.
Our children were not soldiers. They carried books, not weapons. And yet they were bombed as though their very existence was a threat. But let it be known: the Myanmar Military Council can destroy our schools, our homes, and our lives, but it cannot destroy the unbreakable will of the Arakan people to fight for freedom, dignity, and justice.
United Arakan Network - Korea